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Podcast: True Crime Recaps
Episode: A Mother Promised to Kill Her Son Before His Birthday and Called 911 When It Failed
Description: In the early hours of a February morning in Michigan, a 911 dispatcher receives a call that immediately raises concern. A woman tells the operator that “things got out of hand” and that they were “supposed to leave yesterday.” What first sounds like confusion soon reveals a far more serious situation involving 17 year old Austin Pikaart.Investigators later learn that Austin’s mother, Katie Austin Lee, had given her son a combination of medications, believing it would put them both to sleep permanently. When that plan failed and Austin remained alive but unresponsive, events escalated further before authorities arrived at...